CaptHawke

With the Topo data for New England, NYC, Florida and SE Utah, plus all the track info from 4 days of canoeing in the Everglades, I still have 12mb left on a 64mb SD card. Can one ever have enough memory? Look for the best deal and buy what you can afford.

Just one last reminder..............

quote:Originally posted by mikechim: quote:Originally posted by CaptHawke: If you really would love to ask the question, what's stopping you? Seriously. The name, address, phone, fax and email of every NPS administrator is on their website, http://www.nps.gov. If they are making this info public they must want the public to use it. Here's Yellowstone: Superintendent Suzanne Lewis Yellowstone NP P.O. Box 168 Yellowstone, WY 82190 Business Offices: 307-344-7381 Fax: 307-344-2005 EMAIL: YELL_Superintendent@nps.go I never realized that , I'll draft up a letter here in the near future and send it along. Thanks Super! Be sure to share any response with us. The faq sez: "In the last 7 days, there have been 10875 new logs written by 3478 account holders." Imagine if each time someone wrote a log they also sent off a thoughtful note to the stewards of our public lands, local, state or national, asking for a statement or explaination of their geocaching policy. Or maybe an invitation to join us on a cache hunt.

quote:Originally posted by mikechim: quote:Originally posted by CaptHawke: If you really would love to ask the question, what's stopping you? Seriously. The name, address, phone, fax and email of every NPS administrator is on their website, http://www.nps.gov. If they are making this info public they must want the public to use it. Here's Yellowstone: Superintendent Suzanne Lewis Yellowstone NP P.O. Box 168 Yellowstone, WY 82190 Business Offices: 307-344-7381 Fax: 307-344-2005 EMAIL: YELL_Superintendent@nps.go I never realized that , I'll draft up a letter here in the near future and send it along. Thanks Super! Be sure to share any response with us. The faq sez: "In the last 7 days, there have been 10875 new logs written by 3478 account holders." Imagine if each time someone wrote a log they also sent off a thoughtful note to the stewards of our public lands, local, state or national, asking for a statement or explaination of their geocaching policy. Or maybe an invitation to join us on a cache hunt.

quote:Originally posted by mikechim: I'm guessing these interviews are with state park rangers and not national park rangers. I'd love to ask a NP administrator how the heck it can be ok to run so many snowmobiles around yellowstone that the noxious fumes make the park staff sick, but I can't place a cache out there. Don't get me wrong, I realize the impact of hiking and common trails, in Acadia NP I saw idiots walking right pass signs saying to please stay on the trail or the rocks (I believe it was on Cadillac MT) becaues of the damage to the plant life there and I just wanted to smack them, .... I'm rambling... anyway that would be my question. If you really would love to ask the question, what's stopping you? Seriously. The name, address, phone, fax and email of every NPS administrator is on their website, www.nps.gov. If they are making this info public they must want the public to use it. Here's Yellowstone: Superintendent Suzanne Lewis Yellowstone NP P.O. Box 168 Yellowstone, WY 82190 Business Offices: 307-344-7381 Fax: 307-344-2005 EMAIL: YELL_Superintendent@nps.go

quote:Originally posted by TJWilson1: I was thinking using little plastic sheets with the info for the next leg on it. The sheets would be about 4" by 3" or so, but I don't know how I would get the letering on them. I guess I could get some of that sign material left over from a shop in a town a short drive away. Any other suggestions on what to use? Around here there are several multi-caches that use fluorescent surveyor's tape tied around trees. Co-ords of the next leg are written on the tape in permenent marker. This seems to hold up fairly well. For something really permanent, look here. The orange marker in the photo is a short piece of angle iron with one long edge hammered into a crack in the rock. It would take a crowbar to pry it out. This marker is harder to see than the photo would lead you to believe. You have to be on your hands and knees, near a cliff edge, in order to see it. A multi I visited this past weekend, Federal Hill GC2EEF, had co-ords painted on the underside of the steps of a fire tower. The ranger on duty seemed to have no problem with this and was delighted when a pair of cachers volunteered fill a couple trash bags with litter that had accumulated near the tower during the off season

The day may come when your GPS receiver fails and you have to rely on old fashioned navigation techniques. Orienteering is a great way to hone those skills. And you'd be surprised at how many orienteers are also geocachers. I think the two sports really compliment each other. This Saturday, May 4, is National Orienteering Day. Local orienteering clubs across the US will be holding meets this weekend with the emphasis on attracting first-timers. Instruction and courses for all levels of navigators will be available. Here's the schedule of over 50 events.

Just to show that searching for tupperware boxes can be compatible with public lands, check outDartmoor National Park(PDF) in the UK. There are an thousands of letterboxes within the 368 square miles of the park.

I was randomly(?) pulled out of line for a thorough security check on my return flight from Paris(DeGaul)in February. When they did a search of my carry-on, the GPS aroused suspicion. (No problems when we had departed from Boston, where I also got the full treatment, complete with an inspection of my shoes.) A supervisor was called over, I had to turn the GPS on and then remove the batteries. It was then sealed in a large envelope, I was given a luggage receipt and told I could claim it when we landed in the US. Later, while waiting for boarding, I saw one of the security people deliver the envelope to the American Airlines staff. The fellow who took it had a "What the heck am I supposed to do with this?" look on his face. I quick popped up, went over to the counter and told him that the envelope contained my GPS. He asked me to wait and went down the ramp towards the plane. A couple minutes later he returned with the envelope unsealed and told me the pilot had no problems with me taking the GPS on board.

Why interview a ranger? They only inforce policy that is set higher up. Go straight to the people who make the policy, like Marcia Keener, an analyst at the NPS Office of Policy in Washington. Read about it: A Dialogue With the National Park Service There was some follow-up: Virtual Caching in National Parks. Adomatis, if you would like to pick up the dialogue, a little searching around at the NPS website will get you in touch with the people who really make a difference.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/03/20/north.pole/index.html If you give a heading based on magnetic north it might be off in a just a few years. Yikes!

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/03/20/north.pole/index.html If you give a heading based on magnetic north it might be off in a just a few years. Yikes!